Discussing everything from Andrew Carnegie's turn-of-the-century philosophy of philanthropy, to the most recent writings by current scholars, this collection of writings on the nonprofit sector in the US contains articles, chapters and essays.
This work is a practical and tactical guide, compiling pieces that cover the internal workings and fundamentals of governing the non-profit sector. Articles cover governance, executive leadership and revenue streams, among others.
From their experience in nonprofit operations and their understanding of the realities of urban politics, the editors of this wide-ranging volume and their contributors dig into issues seldom explored in the literature. They study the role of nonprofits in local governing coalitions, the potential of nonprofits to replace social welfare programs, their efforts to restructure key elements of the local political process, and the unanticipated internal impacts of the changing roles of nonprofit organizations in the urban community. The result is a compelling argument that to understand life in contemporary American cities, we must take into account the expanding role of nonprofit organizations, their response to increased service demands, and their participation in common efforts to direct policy choices.
Most small not-for-profit organizations are under-resourced and under-skilled. Many are barely keeping their heads above water now that the emphasis is on contracting out work in both the public and private sectors. Most are looking for help to cope with new demands for accountability and performance assessment. Managing to Survive outlines key strategies managers can take to not only survive but improve the service their organization provides.Managing to Survive offers a broad introduction to the management issues faced in small human service organizations. It covers the basics of managing different roles and skills, staff and volunteer recruitment, training, maximising people's contribution, managing financial and physical resources and managing change. The approach is practical and the text is illustrated with real examples.
This text provides a much-needed summation of strategic management issues in nonprofit organisations, and addresses both the academic theory and current practice of strategic planning and strategic management.
The rapidly growing trend of higher education programs specially tailored for managers of nonprofit agencies is no more than fifteen years old, but now these programs include thousands of students at nearly one hundred universities and colleges worldwide. Business management education developed at the turn of the century, and public management began education in the 1930s; now nonprofit management education is emerging in a comparable way. This book charts the growth of and addresses the major issues and controversies surrounding this new field. The collection includes both academics and practitioners reporting their research findings and experiences with nonprofit management education. Major issues include the growth of nonprofit management as an academic field, the academic and political problems facing the field, curricular and instructional issues including new technologies such as distance learning, and the debate over whether such programs should be housed in schools of business, public administration, or in their own separate programs. The book also explores ways and means by which nonprofit management education can most effectively serve nonprofit practitioners.
Schmaedick makes the case that responsible nonprofit managers must utilize cost-effectiveness analysis and draws examples of how it can be done from prestigious nonprofit organizations. Referencing TechnoServe's search for a practical methodology to measure the cost-effectiveness of its own work, editor Schmaedick provides a unique synthesis of the principles of cost-effectiveness analysis. These guidelines are widely applicable and make cost-effective management an attainable goal for all nonprofits. Schmaedick provides some hard-nosed practical directions for nonprofit managers. Anyone seriously interested in management for cost-effectiveness will find this a challenging, but not intimidating prescription. The chapters that follow illustrate how leading nonprofit organizations in the Arts, Education, Environment, Health, Human Services, and International Development grapple with and resolve the challenge of cost-effective management.